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Q.ANT is a Stuttgart-based photonic processor company and TRUMPF spin-off founded in 2018. It develops Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) photonic chips for AI and HPC co-processing under its LENA (Light Empowered Native Arithmetics) architecture, claiming 30x energy efficiency gains and a potential 100x increase in data center capacity. The company also has a quantum sensor division with applications in prosthetics and industrial sensing. In July 2025, Q.ANT raised a EUR 62M Series A co-led by Cherry Ventures, UVC Partners, and imec.xpand, with participation from L-Bank and TRUMPF. ARM founder Hermann Hauser sits on its advisory board. The company ships Native Processing Servers (NPS) to selected partners and operates a TFLN chip pilot line with IMS CHIPS in Stuttgart. In November 2025, Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Family Office invested $80M, the largest photonic computing financing round in Europe at the time. That same month, Q.ANT launched NPU 2, its second-generation photonic processor for AI and HPC in a 19-inch rack-mountable form factor with PCIe connectivity, with customer shipments scheduled for H1 2026. Update 2026-04-08: Q.ANT appointed Michael Krueger as Vice President of Commercials. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qant-appoints-20-year-intel-vet/ Update 2025-11-18: Q.ANT unveiled its NPU 2 processor which combines photonics and traditional electronics to accelerate AI and high-performance computing workloads. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/qant-npu-ai-photonic-processing/
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